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- Bechtel (category American companies established in 1898)(/ˈbɛktəl/) is an American engineering, procurement, construction, and project management company founded in San Francisco, California in 1898, and headquartered128 KB (12,181 words) - 23:15, 7 February 2025
- Guam was one of five American jurisdictions in the Pacific Ocean, along with Wake Island in Micronesia, American Samoa and Hawaii in Polynesia, and the Philippines108 KB (10,068 words) - 15:00, 11 January 2025
- Puerto Rico (category States and territories established in 1898)oldest, founded in 1521; the next earliest settlements are San Germán in 1570, Coamo in 1579, Arecibo in 1614, Aguada in 1692 and Ponce in 1692. Increased257 KB (24,445 words) - 00:46, 11 February 2025
- Hawaii (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English) (section Overthrow of 1893 – Republic of HawaiTemplate:Okinai (1894–1898))a few sailors arrived in 1778 with Cook's journey, and more in 1789 with an American trader who settled in HawaiTemplate:Okinai in the late 18th century242 KB (23,642 words) - 01:08, 11 February 2025
- The Washington Post (category Newspapers established in 1877)the battle-cry for American sailors during the War. In 1902, Berryman published another famous cartoon in the Post – Drawing the Line in Mississippi. This140 KB (12,942 words) - 23:29, 7 February 2025
- North Carolina (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English) (section American Civil War)generally supported the American Revolution, although there were some Loyalists. Loyalists in North Carolina were fewer in number than in some other colonies231 KB (19,884 words) - 07:16, 13 February 2025
- Oregon (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)traversed Oregon in the early 1800s, and the first permanent European settlements in Oregon were established by fur trappers and traders. In 1843, an autonomous196 KB (16,908 words) - 22:56, 12 February 2025
- United States Naval Academy (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English) (section American Civil War)modern hospital in 1907, the fourth in sequence, on what is today called "Hospital Point." In 1910, the academy established its own dairy farm. In 1913, the144 KB (15,758 words) - 23:20, 7 February 2025
- increasingly displaced natives. The Dakota Territory, established in 1861, became central to American pioneers, with the Homestead Act of 1862 precipitating156 KB (14,444 words) - 15:46, 3 February 2025
- Maine (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)Popham Colony, established by the Plymouth Company in 1607. A number of English settlements were established along the coast of Maine in the 1620s, although111 KB (11,083 words) - 00:53, 11 February 2025
- nickname, "The Sooner State", in reference to the Sooners, American settlers who staked their claims in formerly American Indian-owned lands until the Indian214 KB (19,523 words) - 00:48, 11 February 2025
- Marine Corps (category Military units and formations established in 1775) (section Foundation and American Revolutionary War)Taliban-held town of Garmsir in Helmand Province on 29 April 2008, in the first major American operation in the region in years. In June 2009, 7,000 marines169 KB (17,502 words) - 00:35, 15 February 2025
- Iowa (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)some of their land in the Mississippi Valley to the U.S. in 1832 in the Black Hawk Purchase Treaty and sold their remaining land in Iowa in 1842, most of them200 KB (16,740 words) - 07:30, 4 February 2025
- Alaska (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)efforts in the late 1990s to construct a mosque in Anchorage. They broke ground on a building in south Anchorage in 2010 and were nearing completion in late195 KB (17,606 words) - 15:42, 3 February 2025
- California Institute of Technology (category Universities and colleges established in 1891) (section In media and popular culture)chromosome in heredity. In 1930, Kerckhoff Marine Laboratory was established in Corona del Mar under the care of Professor George MacGinitie. In 1926, a graduate146 KB (14,323 words) - 17:32, 3 February 2025
- Wisconsin (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)British remained in control until after the War of 1812, the outcome of which finally established an American presence in the area. Under American control, the185 KB (16,210 words) - 07:16, 13 February 2025
- Nebraska (category States and territories established in 1867) (section American settlement and statehood)United States in 1867, two years after the end of the American Civil War. The Nebraska Legislature is unlike any other American legislature in that it is110 KB (8,238 words) - 01:31, 11 February 2025
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English) (section Companies and entrepreneurship)Grisswold founded American Research and Development Corporation, the first American venture-capital firm. In 1948, Compton established the MIT Industrial217 KB (21,278 words) - 07:32, 4 February 2025
- United States Military Academy (category Educational institutions established in 1802) (section Life in the corps)2003, Stephanie Hightower in 2005, Lindsey Danilack in 2013, Simone Askew in 2017, Reilly McGinnis in 2020, and Lauren Drysdale in 2022. Simone Askew was146 KB (15,694 words) - 22:55, 12 February 2025
- Coast Guard Academy (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)Curtis Bay, Baltimore in 1900 and to Fort Trumbull in 1910, a Revolutionary War–era Army installation in New London, Connecticut. In 1914, the school became48 KB (3,717 words) - 23:36, 15 December 2024